Script Frenzy winner! Statistics and competition round up

There are still 5 days left in Script Frenzy but not for me, man, because I finished yesterday. I didn’t set out to win. I had worked all night Friday and Saturday was a busy day so I was determined to do nothing but sit on my butt all day Sunday but then I thought, well I could write a little bit. Then I just started going and when I hit a wall and wanted to quit I was like, to hell with it, and forced myself to plow through to the end of The Muppet Play.

I would say that my husband is a Screnzy widower were it not for the fact that he’s in hockey playoffs land anyway. 😉

For those of you just tuning it, Script Frenzy is a worldwide challenge to write a 100 page script (I wrote 2 stage plays adding up to 100 pages) in a month from the people behind NaNoWriMo.

I have a lot of other work nipping at my heels and we’ll be out of town at the end of this week so I am total psyched to have finished early. The best part was that I finished at about 97 pages but I was writing each new section without formatting and adding formatting when I stopped for the day. So when I was finished doing my little format paint party on what I wrote yesterday, it was over 100 pages and I was like, yeeeehaaaaaw! The last day of writing was an over 20 page day, I wasn’t messing around!

Of course, technically, the script is 263 pages long because stage plays are only supposed to be 100 words a page but I started out to do 100 full pages of letter size and I decided to run with it even if it means I did over 2 and a half times the work. So both plays are a little long but I’m not worried about it as they both need a lot of editing.

(If you want your own stats like these, you can grab my little Screnzy calculator here.)

Those 4 pages per day are a little funny because I would do a big 10 page day and then take several days off so it just shows how sporadic my work was. To the people who are behind or who quit in the beginning because they were many pages behind or whatever, 10 pages is what I do per writing session so let me remind you that there is always, always time to catch up. It usually takes under 2 hours for me to do 10 pages and this play was slllllooooowwww going so you may be much faster. If you really worked on it, you could do the whole 100 page challenge in 20 hours.

But loving that average words per day! Sure, it’s less than my average during NaNoWriMo but its still way higher than my usual words per day so the exercise was definitely worth it in getting more writing done a day.  Other good news? For the year, my new writing to editing work has finally tipped the scale to 53% new writing this year over editing. Thank you, Screnzy!

As for the plays, they are a total rough draft mess, obviously, but I am really excited with how part of both of them came out and I can’t wait to carve out some time to hack at them and make them into something good.

So to everyone still working on their Screnzy project, consider this my rah rah rah and reassertion that believe that you *can* do it. Join the few of us already across the finish line, it’s awesome over here! 😉